"This is a revolution." --McG

Good feature interview with superstar director McG in the May 2009 issue of Fast Company magazine. Listeners of our Texas Film Scene podcast will recall that Dallas filmmakers Blake Calhoun and Mike Maden are now partnering with McG's production company.

Here's an excerpt from the interview:

Our dinosaur studio system does not make sense. This is a revolution.
--McG, director of Terminator: Salvation

Words to live by. Check it out.

New TFS podcast with "Pink" filmmaker Blake Calhoun

Dallas-area filmmaker Blake Calhoun is one-half the team behind the incredibly popular Web show Pink:The Series, which has received over 6 million hits in the last 18 months, and two Streamy Awards.  Pink's success helped lead Blake and writer Mike Maden to a contract with Hollywood's United Talent Agency, and production and distribution deals with L.A.-based production company Generate, headed by former WB chief Joran Levin.  

Blake talks about his start in the business, shooting film vs. video, his partnership with Mike Maden, working with Texas talent, DOF adapters for prosumer video cams, making the leap to L.A. work while being rooted in Dallas, and advice for up-and-coming filmmakers.

The pair recently formed a new company called Alternative Fuel, and their newest project is Exposed, a Web series, and possibly a TV show, for WB Network.

SHOW NOTES:

Blake's personal site:

http://www.blakecalhoun.com/

Blake's companies (including Blake and Mike Madden's company Alternative Fuel TV):

http://www.loudpictures.com/

http://www.altfueltv.com/

Blake's work:

http://www.pinktheseries.com/

http://www.killingdown.com/

http://www.mobumentary.com/

Blake and Mike's new runnin' buddy, McG:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629334/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_Sound_and_Vision

Blake and Mike's reps in L.A.:

http://www.unitedtalent.com/about/index.html

Generate, an investment and production company:

http://www.generatela.com/